Quotes

Compete with one another in good works. To God you shall all return and He will tell you [the truth] about that which you have been disputing. — The Qur’an, Surah Ma’idah, 48

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power [of money] should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson

Martin Luther King was not killed because he had a dream. Dreamers are easily dismissed. He was killed because he sought to introduce into the political arena what he saw with his heart and mind. The same was true of Gandhi and of our Lord. — Elizabeth O’Connor

In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. — James Madison, referred to as the “father” of the US Constitution

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Dr. Seuss

A]s the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. — William Sloan Coffin

W]hen I addressed people as I used to frequently in the peace movement, there would be, in the last 10 years, always somebody saying, “I am so disillusioned.” Well, being old now, I can be forthright and say, “Who the hell gave you the right to have illusions in the first place?” We have no right to have illusions. So we have only ourselves to chastise when we feel disillusioned. — William Sloan Coffin

We’re making enemies faster than we can kill them. — bumper sticker

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — President Theodore Roosevelt

The growing wealth acquired by [corporations] never fails to be a source of abuses. — President James Madison